The Hon. (Dr.) Nishantha Samaraweera
Hon. (Dr.) Nishantha Samaraweera asked the Minister of Health and Mass Media whether the economic crisis had caused doctors and other trained health professionals to leave Sri Lanka, negatively affecting the health service. He requested detailed category-wise figures on current staff, future staffing requirements, premature departures from 2022 to November 2024, and personnel currently in training, including specialist training. He also asked what steps the Ministry would take to recruit the needed professionals expeditiously, or the reasons if no action is planned.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Question to the Minister of Health and Mass Media: HEALTH SERVICE IN SRI LANKA: PROFESSIONALS AND TRAINED OFFICERS (239/2024)
¶ 02 (a) Will he accept that due to the economic crisis, specialist doctors, doctors and other trained health professionals left the country, and that this adversely affected the health service?
¶ 03 (b) Will he inform numbers, separately, of specialist doctors, doctors, nursing officers, supplementary and paramedical officers, and junior staff: (i) currently serving; (ii) required to ensure a proper public health service in future; (iii) who left service before retirement age from 2022 to November 2024; and (iv) currently undergoing training, including specialist training?
¶ 04 (c) Steps to recruit them expeditiously?
¶ 05 (d) If not, why?
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Nishantha Samaraweera. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 9 January 2025. No. 1738229262040729. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/23672